Today, I discovered that it's an hour and 45 minutes quicker to get the bus to work, rather than the train. I've worked there for six years. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, due to recent changes in my local transit system, the bus that I take to work and back is a unidirectional loop instead of bi-directional. So my morning commute is the same, but the commute back is now an hour-and-half instead of 20 minutes. FML
Today, I booked my car in for a service, with the intention of taking the courtesy bus to work. I got there at 8:45am, and the receptionist told me the courtesy bus was 10 minutes away. Work is 1.5km away, so I told my boss that I might be a couple of minutes late. Fifty minutes later, the bus came. I should've walked. FML
Today, I got the bus to work instead of walking so I could be there faster. However, I accidentally got on the wrong bus which let me off a mile and a half away from my workplace. Then, after another half-hour of trying to walk there, I found that it wasn't even open that day. FML
Today, I was starting a new job and I didn't want to be late, so I took a train that left earlier than normal, just to make sure I'd be on time. Turns out, the earlier train wasn't an express train, and made it to my stop 12 minutes after my usual one did. I was late for work. FML
Today, a co-worker, who lives 30 minutes out of my way, had broken down so I picked him up. We were both 5 minutes late and both got fired. Our department takes 30-60 minutes to even start running. FML
Today, I finished moving to my new apartment, which is 45 minutes away from my old one, because my workplace would be closer. I then got a phone call from my boss, telling me that he's transferring me to another location, which is closer to my old apartment. FML
Today, despite the fact they know I'm commuting hundreds of kilometres, I was requested to come to work at the earliest possible hour, every day. I'll be waking up at half past 3 a.m. and admire sunrises on my way. FML
Today, I waited thirty minutes for a bus that stopped running three weeks ago. FML
Today, my boss told me that my attitude to work is awesome and that he'd follow my example of coming in half-an-hour early every day from now on. I relish those 30 minutes as the only time I can get work done without him constantly interrupting me. So much for that. FML
Today, I was late for work so I ran to catch the bus. I made it. Unfortunately, the bus was actually out of service, and I just sprinted to a parked vehicle for no reason. FML
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MisterDoctor 12
Your train of thought must've been elsewhere in the past 6 years.
zingline89 18
With that kind of massive inefficiency I can only assume you are a congressman
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Comments (105)
oddball1972 10
If you think the bus is faster you should try taking a car
SlyGuy101 3
Get a car
RigPig 3
I'm guessing OPs job requires absolutely minimal mental capacity.
aadvdrak 11
Yeah, get a car!
yamuri 17
If there's about 250 business days in a year excluding holidays, if you worked those days a year for 6 years and were on the train for an unneeded 1 hour 45 minutes a day... You wasted 2,175 hours of your life. Poor guy, but then again you should check all methods of transportation when getting a job.
blahblahblah5_x 13
Lol, dumbass.
perdix 31
You're probably in great shape from all that daily training. If you are too broke/cheap to get a car, think motorcycle/scooter -- you'll probably cut your commute time in half.
my_user_name 7
FYL for having a commute anywhere near that long, no matter what method you use. That is the one thing that would make me more miserable than anything else. I can't imagine how long the entire commute is if you can shave off that much time just by switching to the bus. Have you been stuck in that job for six years, or do you just love your work so much that you don't mind making the trip?
kl0x 8
2520 hours wasted... well done!
iikku 7
you have no idea how happy i am that i'm not the only loser who counted!
fordneagles 34
Could have tried other methods of transport, could have gotten a different job, could have done something other than being an oblivious, accepting idiot. No sympathy for you OP, you've wasted more than three months of your life because you didn't think to try something else.